A Dazor Floating Fixture 2124 desk/work lamp used in the 1950s & 1960s in Antwerp in the Diamond industry.

It was sold by a tools shop in the heart of the Diamond business in Antwerp, as labeled: S. Weisz, 126, Rue du Pelican, Anvers. (Pelikaan(s)straat, Antwerp, Belgium).

Special thanks to Louis Brusselmans for the diamond cutter lamp and all the information. His grandfather was one of the founders of the diamond cutting business in the Antwerp Campine (Antwerpse Kempen).

This lamp was used in a diamond cutters workplace in Sint-Job-In-‘t-Goor (Brecht) in Belgium from the 1930s until the early 1960s. There were 3 diamond cutter companies at that time in the small village. In the 1960s these pendant lamps were replaced by TL-lights ( fluorescent tube).

Pictures below: how these lamps were used. Here suspended inthe restored “Slijperij Lieckens“, part of the diamond museum in Nijlen, near Antwerp, where the diamond cutting in the Antwerp Campine started in 1908.